Activity 12

ざっと読みするために文章を読むときは同時にリスニングを行う。音声を途中で止めたりせずに、話されるスピードについていこう。これはあなたにいくつかの単語をスキップさせることになるだろう。それは実は大事なスキルだ。章は短いので、１０分費やすために何度も同じ章を繰り返しざっと読みすることになるだろう。

Listen to HNT Chapter 2 on YouTube (download it, or open another window) and follow along  with the text below (you'll listen as you read). 

Don't pause. Just allow the audio to continue smoothly. 

Repeat until the 10 minutes are up.  Your job is simply to spend the time, not to understand every word.
 
Listen softly, lightly. 

HNT Chapter 2
 Mami sent me a letter today. She wrote:
 

I’m happy. Soon you will come to Japan. I will meet you at Fukuoka airport. Soon we will be together again. We have lived alone for a few months, so we have much to talk about.

Japan has four seasons. So does New Zealand. But their seasons are opposite. Now, in New Zealand it is autumn. In Japan, it is spring.
 
The weather will be important for us, because Mami and I will be camping for much of the time. In New Zealand, I bought a small tent and two light sleeping bags. They are only for summer. If the weather gets bad, then we will get cold. In Japan, as we travel north, I hope that the weather will grow warm. We start from Satamisaki in the south, in April.
 
In two weeks, I fly to Japan. I like Japan. I have been there before. I even have a Japanese hobby. I enjoy writing haiku, but in English, not Japanese. Ten years ago, when I was first in Japan, I started writing them. I would like to write some haiku during my trip. I usually write one or two haiku each day.